Leighton House Museum

Leighton House Museum is the house adapted for museum needs of Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) - an English painter and sculptor, one of the best known and respected representatives of Victorian neoclassicism. The museum offers visitors the opportunity to see the sumptuous, richly furnished interiors of the artist's home and a collection of his works - 76 oil paintings, 700 drawings and sketches, a collection of photographs and a few sculptures by the artist.

The value of the Leighton painting collection is based not only on the number of paintings collected, but primarily on their representativeness: the collection opens with "Death of Brunelleschi" (painting from 1852, painted during studies in Germany), and is closed by "Klytia" - a canvas depicting mythological sea nymph, on which work was interrupted by the artist's death. The museum presents sculpture casts, including Leighton's most famous work - "The Athlete Fighting Python".

The collection of Leighton's works is complemented by the works of other artists, including paintings of John Everett Millais, George Frederic Watts, Frederic Sandys, Byam Shaw and Eduard von Steinle, whom Leighton considered his master. A rich collection of collodion photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) - one of the first women in history who professionally dealt with utilitarian and artistic photography deserves a separate mention.